Robert Watson is a researcher at the University of
Cambridge Computer Laboratory investinging operating
system and network security. Prior to joining the
Computer Laboratory to work on a PhD, he was Senior
Principal Scientist at McAfee Research, now SPARTA
ISSO, a leading security research and development
organization, directing government and commercial
research contracts for customers that include DARPA,
the US Navy, and Apple Computer. His research
interests include operating system security, network
stack structure and performance, and windowing
system structure. He is also a member of the FreeBSD
Core Team and president of the FreeBSD Foundation.

Robert Watson's Slides from EuroBSDCon 2006 and FreeBSD Developer SummitSource: Robert Watson
Added: 14 January 2007
Tags: eurobsdcon, eurobsdcon2006, robert watsonHow the FreeBSD Project Works (EuroBSDCon 2006 Full Conference) (4.4 Mb), TrustedBSD presentation on Audit and priv(9) (Developer Summit) (166 Kb)
EuroBSDCon 2006 took place in Milan, Italy, and not
only offered excellent food on a flexible schedule,
but also an interesting array of talks on work
spanning the BSD's. On this page, you can find my
slides from the FreeBSD developer summit and full
conference.
Status report on the TrustedBSD Project: introduction
and status regarding Audit, plus a TODO list;
introduction to the priv(9) work recently merged
to 7.x.
The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most
successful open source operating system projects,
seeing wide deployment across the IT industry. From
the root name servers, to top tier ISPs, to core
router operating systems, to firewalls, to embedded
appliances, you can't use a networked computer for
ten minutes without using FreeBSD dozens of times.
Part of FreeBSD's reputation for quality and
reliability comes from the nature of its development
organization--driven by a hundreds of highly skilled
volunteers, from high school students to university
professors. And unlike most open source projects,
the FreeBSD Project has developers who have been
working on the same source base for over twenty
years. But how does this organization work? Who
pays the bandwidth bills, runs the web servers,
writes the documentation, writes the code, and calls
the shots? And how can developers in a dozen time
zones reach agreement on the time of day, let alone
a kernel architecture? This presentation will attempt
to provide, in 45 minutes, a brief if entertaining
snapshot into what makes FreeBSD run.

The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most
successful open source operating system projects,
seeing wide deployment across the IT industry. From
the root name servers, to top tier ISPs, to core
router operating systems, to firewalls, to embedded
appliances, you can't use a networked computer for
ten minutes without using FreeBSD dozens of times.

Part of FreeBSD's reputation for quality and
reliability comes from the nature of its development
organization -- driven by a hundreds of highly
skilled volunteers, from high school students to
university professors. And unlike most open source
projects, the FreeBSD Project has developers who
have been working on the same source base for over
twenty years.

But how does this organization work? Who pays the
bandwidth bills, runs the web servers, writes the
documentation, writes the code, and calls the shots?
And how can developers in a dozen time zones reach
agreement on the time of day, let alone a kernel
architecture?

This presentation will attempt to provide, in 45
minutes, a brief if entertaining snapshot into what
makes FreeBSD run.

The FreeBSD Project is one of the oldest and most
successful open source operating system ... all
projects, seeing wide deployment across the IT
industry. From the root name servers, to top tier
ISPs, to core router operating systems, to firewalls,
to embedded appliances, you can't use a networked
computer for ten minutes without using FreeBSD
dozens of times. Part of FreeBSD's reputation for
quality and reliability comes from the nature of
its development organization--driven by a hundreds
of highly skilled volunteers, from high school
students to university professors. And unlike most
open source projects, the FreeBSD Project has
developers who have been working on the same source
base for over twenty years. But how does this
organization work? Who pays the bandwidth bills,
runs the web servers, writes the documentation,
writes the code, and calls the shots? And how can
developers in a dozen time zones reach agreement
on the time of day, let alone a kernel architecture?
This presentation will attempt to provide, in 45
minutes, a brief if entertaining snapshot into
what makes FreeBSD run.

Speaker: Robert Watson Robert Watson is a researcher
at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
investinging operating system and network security.
Prior to joining the Computer Laboratory to work
on a PhD, he was a Senior Principal Scientist at
McAfee Research, now SPARTA ISSO, a leading security
research and development organization, where he
directed government and commercial research contracts
for customers that include DARPA, the US Navy, and
Apple Computer. His research interests include
operating system security, network stack structure
and performance, and windowing system structure.
He is also a member of the FreeBSD Core Team and
president of the FreeBSD Foundation.